Implement four-eyes principle for root access

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Hello everyone,

I am trying to setup four-eyes principle for usage of root account. Is there a way to do this without using third-party software?

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In general, implementing the two-man rule requires the use of authorization-helpers to implement the work flow. Most of these helpers are delivered as for-fee software. If the value of your time to engineer and maintain your own solution is less than the licensing costs of the for-fee software, then you could always write or cobble-together your own solution (e.g., you could always put sudo membership control under an external service like Puppet or Salt, then let your membership control be enforced by one person and your actual login/sudo action would be performed by the actual systems administrator).

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, puppet or salt are not an option in our scenario. We have to enforce the rules directly at that machine without being able to access external systems for user verification or authorization. What I had in mind was using PAM to define a PAM rule stack. Any chance you have encountered such a scenario?

Without relying on an external service - even just a centralized directory service? No.

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